Posted on: 2nd Aug 2011
By: Robert Kent
When hosting your Magento website you may find that you are restricted to how you can access your website’s database. Normally when hosting a Magento site you would use a platform such as plesk or similar where you can create your databases within the control panel. The only problem with this is when you wish [...]
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Posted on: 21st Jul 2011
By: Adam Moss
A relatively new addition to the Magento category model is the ability to choose a category thumbnail. This works out well because those of you that will have used thumbnails for the category image before will know that when it is displayed on the actual category page, it doesn’t really fit into the area, meaning [...]
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Posted on: 19th Jul 2011
By: Robert Kent
When it comes to Ecommerce Web Design – there are no more important areas than the checkout. Today’s post is all about looking at what a checkout is and what it is put there to do. Later on in this series I will look at how we can optimise our checkouts – specifically relating to [...]
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Posted on: 8th Jul 2011
By: Ben McManus
With the Magento Fox on the bookmark rampage I thought I would join in with my favorite developer tools/extensions. Browser development/testing Firebug + YSlow This priceless tool packs it all, element/script editing, logging, connections and it’s own plugins! The Yahoo extension YSlow analyses your DOM and gives it a page load rating a must for [...]
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Posted on: 7th Jul 2011
By: Adam Moss
Today marks the 340th post on this blog, meaning Rob, Ben, Luci and I have contributed a lot of content over the past few years. Some of it good, some of it not so good (Magento Horrorshow anyone?). Anyway, I’ve collected a list of posts and code snippets that myself and my colleagues often go [...]
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